How to make .desktop shortcut - jharwinbarrozo/rotcontrol GitHub Wiki
.desktop
file in Ubuntu that launches a Python script
Creating a Here we will make two .desktop
files that will launch Pupil Capture and Pupil Player.
Steps
- Right click on your desktop and create a new empty document.
- Set the document file type by Renaming the document that ends with
.desktop
- Drag the document into a text editor and edit the document with the example code below
Note: Change the X-Icon-Path to the icon you want to use and
Execpath to where Pupil Capture
main.py` is located on your machine (see example pupil.desktop for reference)
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Pupil Capture
Version=v0.8.5
Icon=pupil-capture
X-Icon-Path=/path/to/icon/file/
Exec=python /path/to/py/file/main.py
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Option - you can use Terminal=true
to launch the terminal if desired.
In the terminal set the permissions of the desktop file to be executable by typing this:
chmod u+x path/to/py/file/main.py
Right click on the new empty document and in the Permissions tab, set the execute
to allow executing file as program
.